2012 BRAND Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 95.1 points

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  1/29/2024 - Duce wrote: 96 Points

  Fantastic wine. Drinking very well at this point. Still with years to go.

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  5/14/2022 - drmarc61 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Wow! What four years of extra age can do for a wine. 90 minute decant and drank over two hours. A remarkably vibrant taste from start to finish. Dark fruit, wood and rock notes, with spice box wrapped around a vibrant, but not sharp or drying tannin. Long taste on the tongue. Many bottles begin to lose their vibrancy after several hours of drinking, but not this one. This wine is in a great drinking window. My guess would be that it will remain in this space for the next 3-5 years.

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  12/30/2021 - Acohen Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Intense currant, berry and plum with integrated tannin and lingering finish

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  10/24/2020 - ewasowicz wrote: 95 Points

  Nose: Covid but getting a little bit of mint and dark fruit.
  Taste: charcoal, dark fruit, smooth long finish with a hint of fruit.

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  10/13/2020 - TheEngineer Likes this wine: 96 Points

  This wine seems to be shutting down a bit. Had it opened for five hours but it did not really reveal anything until about 8 hours in. By then, it was showing not only the density and rather monothic power of this wine. but also a nice level of complexity, balance, hinting at so much more. Tasted in a lineup with 2009 Maybach Amoenus, 2012 Memento Mori, 2012 Brand, 2012 Continuum, 2014 Alpha Omega Beckstoffer Dr. Crane and 2014 Alejandro Bulgheroni and it was abou mid tier in this group.

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